A magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Japan. Authorities issued evacuation orders affecting approximately 90,000 residents, and the prefectures of Hokkaido, Aomori, and Iwateha issued a tsunami warning, which was downgraded a few hours later. The country's Meteorological Agency initially warned that waves could reach three meters in height, but those observed so far ranged between 20 and 70 centimeters. The quake struck at 11:15 p.m. local time on Monday, off the coast of Aomori Prefecture in the northeast of the archipelago. The epicenter of the earthquake, which left at least seven people injured, was located at a depth of 50 kilometers. The intensity, registered as 6 out of 7 on the Japanese seismic scale, was such that it made it impossible to stand or move without crawling.

He Wednesday's earthquake off the coast of Russia It is the sixth most intense earthquake ever recorded in the world. With a magnitude of 8.8, one of the highest in history, it is still behind another that occurred in the same Russian region of Kamchatka in 1952, which was magnitude 9. The strongest in history (since records began) is the magnitude 9.5 that occurred in Chile in 1951, with waves reaching up to 10 meters in some places. This Wednesday, however, waves did not exceed 4 meters on the Russian coast.

An 8.8-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula triggered a tsunami on Wednesday, putting several Pacific Ocean countries on alert for several hours, including Japan, the US territories of Hawaii and Alaska, China, and Canada. At least two million people received evacuation orders in Japan early Tuesday morning, and evacuations were also ordered in areas of Hawaii, where waves of 1.2 meters were already recorded, and along the US west coast. The tsunami reached the coast of California, where the tide rose one meter above normal. But by early afternoon, the alert had been lifted in virtually all territories that feared damage.